Sillybean

March 29, 2008

County Convention

Just got home about 20 minutes ago. I have to say, I really can’t recommend spending eight hours in an elementary school gym with your fellow citizens, no matter how similar your politics might be. If the Texas Democratic Women hadn’t been funding a scholarship by selling bottled water, and if a local lawyer hadn’t brought in dozens of pizzas at the six-hour mark, there would have been bloodshed.

It was educational. I’ll give it that.

9:56 pm · Politics 6 comments

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  1. Ooooh! I want to know more :-) Caffeination for story time, this week?

    Posted by Court on March 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am

  2. Sure!

    Posted by Stephanie on March 30th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

  3. I want to hear all about it, too!

    Posted by Shaima on March 31st, 2008 at 11:08 am

  4. Posted by Court on April 4th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

  5. Fixed the formatting. :) (You just have to put the URL to the image between the !s).

    Posted by Stephanie on April 4th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

  6. Also, that is absolutely hilarious.

    Posted by Stephanie on April 4th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

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